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I saw a story in the Indy about the Escapism film festival running this weekend, and how they were showing a whole bunch of GenX nostalgia flicks. So I poked Ben into going.
We saw The Last Unicorn - the reel was apparently borrowed from the Alamo Drafthouse, if I heard the owner right in his introduction. I know I saw it as a kid; I was 6 when it came out. We probably watched it on HBO or something. I have to say, watching something like that as a kid (which I don't remember much about, except the red bull and the ending) and as an adult is a very different experience. Molly Grue's "Where were you when I was new?" speech was ... OK, I cried. That feeling of having missed something, lost an opportunity, only to have it come too late isn't something a child can understand, not on that visceral level.
It's playing again tomorrow afternoon, if anyone local wants to see it.
Then they had the 1978 Battlestar Galactica movie - which is apparently a huge fuckin deal, since all the prints save 1 are lost or destroyed, and the theater got it from the vaults at Universal. So it was a rare opportunity.
I remember that I watched the original BSG as a kid, when it came on TV [in reruns, because I was 2 when it came out], but I don't remember much about it. (I also watched CHiPS and The Dukes of Hazzard. My mom tells me that when I was like 6, I told her I'd marry Bo *and* Luke. Apparently poly wiring starts early ;) ) But when Lorne Greene came on the screen in his weird blue uniform thing, I was like "OK, that's Adama. The one I remember." But then I couldn't remember Apollo's name until Ben reminded me. Go figure. (Ben didn't know that the little kid was Atreyu in the Neverending Story, though. And his mom was Jane Seymour minus some acting ability.)
But it seems that, despite my mom's best efforts, stories about spaceships and dogfighting in space and evil robots got into my brain when I was quite impressionable. So it's no surprise that I like Macross and Gundam and space opera.
We saw The Last Unicorn - the reel was apparently borrowed from the Alamo Drafthouse, if I heard the owner right in his introduction. I know I saw it as a kid; I was 6 when it came out. We probably watched it on HBO or something. I have to say, watching something like that as a kid (which I don't remember much about, except the red bull and the ending) and as an adult is a very different experience. Molly Grue's "Where were you when I was new?" speech was ... OK, I cried. That feeling of having missed something, lost an opportunity, only to have it come too late isn't something a child can understand, not on that visceral level.
It's playing again tomorrow afternoon, if anyone local wants to see it.
Then they had the 1978 Battlestar Galactica movie - which is apparently a huge fuckin deal, since all the prints save 1 are lost or destroyed, and the theater got it from the vaults at Universal. So it was a rare opportunity.
I remember that I watched the original BSG as a kid, when it came on TV [in reruns, because I was 2 when it came out], but I don't remember much about it. (I also watched CHiPS and The Dukes of Hazzard. My mom tells me that when I was like 6, I told her I'd marry Bo *and* Luke. Apparently poly wiring starts early ;) ) But when Lorne Greene came on the screen in his weird blue uniform thing, I was like "OK, that's Adama. The one I remember." But then I couldn't remember Apollo's name until Ben reminded me. Go figure. (Ben didn't know that the little kid was Atreyu in the Neverending Story, though. And his mom was Jane Seymour minus some acting ability.)
But it seems that, despite my mom's best efforts, stories about spaceships and dogfighting in space and evil robots got into my brain when I was quite impressionable. So it's no surprise that I like Macross and Gundam and space opera.
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Date: 2009-10-17 10:29 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-10-17 10:49 pm (UTC)From:Last Unicorn is scarily close to its book. The parts that were left in are very, very close to the book, and only one major segment was left out (that I can remember).
I love that movie...I have it on DVD :)
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Date: 2009-10-17 11:11 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-10-18 12:54 am (UTC)From:I was super happy to meet & attend a panel with Peter Beagle at D*C, and The Last Unicorn is why. <3
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Date: 2009-10-18 01:29 am (UTC)From:Anyway. Movie night! Yes! You come?
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Date: 2009-10-18 01:37 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-10-18 02:32 am (UTC)From:speaking of plans, do you want to get a group together for the fair next weekend? I know there's a group of us who aren't interested in the demolition derby and maybe don't want to travel in a group of 15+.
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Date: 2009-10-18 03:41 pm (UTC)From:I believe there were tentative plans to go to Charlotte for the Ren Faire Sunday; I'm not a huge fair-goer, but Ben likes it. Of course, he'd probably complain about losing both days of his weekend to fun stuff.
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Date: 2009-10-18 03:50 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2009-10-18 04:37 pm (UTC)From: